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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes the google blacklist Democrats (or democrats)?
What if the google blacklisted you?
Point the zeroeth: "With great power comes great responsibility", but the google is a "properly" programmed soulless corporation of the most inhuman sort. All the google anthropomorphically "wants" is all the money in the universe, and damn the responsibility.
Point the first: I strongly believe that I have been blacklisted by the google in the past. As a result, I was unable to use certain services for various periods of time. The longest "outage" lasted for years. (DAUPR. But why do you care?) There are certain google services that seem to work badly now. Just bugs or "negative personalization" for an "enemy of the state of the google"? Maybe I'm just too stupid (and paranoid?) to figure out how to use the google properly? (Or maybe you're next?)
Point the second: How can you or I tell the difference between being deliberately blacklisted and "bugs" in the "personalization" of your Google account? Maybe some of your email is just being incorrectly filtered as spam? Or maybe the google has "decided" you shouldn't be talking to certain people? Perhaps the google is trying to prevent the use of google services by criminals and you just got swept up in the net by a programming flaw? Or maybe the google machine "suspects" you of the ultimate crime, acting so as to reduce the google's profits?
Point the third: I like freedom too much. The thing I most dislike about the google is how hard they work to eliminate any non-google choices for the sake of profit maximization and cancerous growth. Cancer always kills its host. (Perhaps that's what happened (or is happening) to America?)
Point the fourth: How would you know? Perhaps by comparing notes with other people, but "true friends" of the google might not tell you the truth (the whole truth, and nothing but the truth) about how the google truly works. (Compare to Apple fanbois?)
Response to shanen (Original post)
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MineralMan
(150,887 posts)Perhaps there are other reasons people are not replying to your thread. Perhaps...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,485 posts)I use the Google to look up stuff, but I don't have any account with them. If you're referring to a gmail account, just get a different email with another provider.
shanen
(349 posts)The google has a large range of services. Maybe you live under a rock and didn't know, but it seems unlikely. Their search engine was just the "gateway drug".
Actually, there are a couple of places where it isn't even possible for me to avoid the google. For example, my long established email address, the one I regard as the closest thing I have to a permanent identity, was recently converted into a Gmail address in disguise. I actually protested at the time of the conversion, but the administrators of the old email system didn't offer any alternative.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,485 posts)No android, no smart phone at all, just a basic phone.
And you can still get a different email if you want. It might be possible to forward all mail to the gmail account (how exactly is it a gmail account in disguise?) or simply send out a mass email letting everyone know about the knew email. It's still not very clear what exactly you are complaining about. Maybe you simply have malware on your computer that needs to be dealt with.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)Details available upon polite request.
Yours was not.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)onenote
(46,065 posts)and I doubt that Google could blacklist every Democrat or even a substantial number of them without damaging their economic value.
I can't say why you experienced what you experienced, other than to doubt it reflects some widespread targeting of Democrats.
HAB911
(10,351 posts)with this monitor it REALLY REALLY wants me to buy:
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/210-alez
mia
(8,476 posts)Ever since I clicked on your link, google is following me around too.
Now I want a Dell UltraSharp 32 8K Monitor.
HAB911
(10,351 posts)HAB911
(10,351 posts)This may be a small thing. But it's something we can fix.
Why is @google making Sandy Hook denial profitable? Look at hoax sites & you see thousands of brands using @adsense.
Please sign this petition to ask them to stop. https://buff.ly/2Adq6KS @slpng_giants
Link to tweet
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)You might have malware on your computer. I suggest you run a complete virus scan, followed by a malware scan.
There are plenty of free anti-virus products out there. Malwarebytes is a great free anti malware product.
